John McCain Quotes

I don't know if you could ever say, quote 'mission accomplished,' as much as you could say 'Americans are out of harm's way.'

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• My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Culture

• We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Pleasure
  • Loved

• I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Better
  • See

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Work
  • Day
  • Cool

• My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Raising

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Through
  • Cloud

• Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Different
  • City
  • Awesome

• Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Chinese
  • Factory
  • Laptop

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • True
  • Success
  • Self

• For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Organization
  • Level

• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Real
  • Community
  • Struggle

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

  

  Roberta Flack
  • Music
  • Faith

• Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

  

  Colin Camerer
  • Family
  • Tree
  • Cousin

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.

  

  Joe Montana

• I don't know if you could ever say, quote 'mission accomplished,' as much as you could say 'Americans are out of harm's way.'

  

  John McCain